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Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano
OUT: ”Man-Caused Disasters”
IN: Terror, Terrorists, Terrorism
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who drew criticism for not mentioning the word “terror” during her first appearance before Congress in February, used the term or its variants 23 times during a 30-minute speech before the Council of Foreign Relations on Wednesday.
By Joshua Rhett Miller, FOXNews.com
It’s OK to [...]
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….St. Vincent de Paul says of abortion inclusion in health care bill, “The bishops’ office has advised us that that’s not accurate”….
By Kathleen Gilbert. July 29, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Three major Catholic organizations have issued a video and an action alert urging constituents to tell their legislators to immediately enact health care legislation, despite [...]
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Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow – 7/31/2009
American Life League says two prominent Catholic charities have “divorced themselves” from church teaching in supporting the Obama administration’s healthcare proposal.
The two charities — the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Catholic Health Association — recently released a notice to their members encouraging them to support healthcare reform. “We [...]
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‘(People) May Not Know What’s Good for Them’
“You’ve got 47% of the people in our NBC/Wall Street Journal opinion poll who have health insurance who don’t like what the president is doing. The problem he’s got — 47% of the people who’ve got coverage don’t want change. They don’t like what they’re hearing. Now, they may [...]
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Patriot Post, Friday Digest – Vol. 09 No. 30
“We spend about $6,000 per person more than any other industrialized nation on earth — $6,000 more than the people do in Denmark, or France, or Germany, or — every one of these other countries spend at least 50 percent less than we do, and you know [...]
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….”Walter E. Williams points to the Founders’ own words on the lack of constitutional authority for such actions, adding, “What we’re witnessing today is nothing less than a massive escalation in White House and congressional thuggery.”….
Patriot Post, Friday Digest – Vol. 09 No. 30
Red October Looms for ObamaCare
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Americans can breathe a sigh of [...]
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Patriot Post, Friday Digest – Vol. 09 No. 30
“[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
–James Madison
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….”…it is a pill that would cause economic suicide,” said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel. “It’s a euthanasia bill for America.”. . . Staver notes that under Section 163, the government would be allowed to have real-time access to individuals’ finances, including direct access to bank accounts for electronic funds transfers . . . [...]
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Bishop Sheridan of Colorado Springs, Colorado talks about remaining silent on moral issues, and the separation of Church and State.
http://www.realcatholictv.com/#
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Archbishop Chaput of Denver, Colorado, speaks about politics and the Church’s role in the political process.
http://www.realcatholictv.com/#
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Catholic News Agency, July 31, 2009
The late Gloria Strauss
Seattle, Wash. – The short life of a devout, Catholic, young girl from Seattle has brought many Catholics across the United States back to the Church. Her holy and loving example, as well as her battle with cancer, has drawn others to convert to Catholicism and has inspired the [...]
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….Why is the Obama “birther” debate important? What’s important about it is the feeling a growing number of Americans have in their bones that Obama is foreign — to our traditions, loyalties and shared understandings about the nature of America . . . Obama is fundamentally “Other than American.” . . . Obama is a socialist, [...]
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By Jim Geraghty, National Review, July 31, 2009
There’s little doubt that the chart next to Rep. Steve King (R., Iowa) above was the most famous illustration to come out of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee.
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey wrote, “I take a certain satisfaction in the role a certain chart played in that victory – the [...]
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Lou Young, CBS, July 31, 2009
Drivers were dumping their old cars in exchange for up to $4,500,
as part of the federal Cash for Clunkers program.
NEW YORK – “Cash for Clunkers” came to a screeching halt Thursday, after only six days on the road.
In a shocker, the government announced it would suspend the program at midnight [...]
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…Obama isn’t supposed to be a typical politician . . . He was supposed to be The One. He was supposed to change Washington. Transcend race. Fix souls. Bake twelve-minute brownies in seven minutes . . . His messianic hopey-changiness has been exposed for what it was, and what it could only be: a rich cocktail [...]
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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, July 30, 2009 – Thursday
All bets may be off in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where talk of a health care compromise between moderate and liberal Democrats has dominated the Hill news. Chairman Harry Waxman (D-Calif.) is leading the mark-up of H.R. 3200 in hopes of moving the bill [...]
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We must consider our neighbor in relationship to God, who wants us to love him…and we are to be interested in him even when this is distasteful to us. The resistance of the inferior part of our soul will be overcome by the frequent performance of good acts. To this end, however, we must center [...]
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Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, July 30, 2009 – Thursday
Yesterday I couldn’t help notice the public accusations from the nation’s largest abortion providers that claimed FRC’s latest commercial on health care reform is misleading. In it, we warn Americans that the current proposals will lead to an abortion mandate–something Planned Parenthood has actively lobbied for. [...]
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — President Barack Obama today named 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor that can be bestowed on its citizens. Obama’s group of recipients includes abortion advocates who have repeatedly earned condemnation from the pro-life movement.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat5301.html
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….the football star told the reporters that he believes that the publicity given to his mother’s story has helped other women choose not to abort their unborn children. Tebow’s mother..was pressured to abort Tebow following a life-threatening infection she suffered while pregnant with him….
By John Jalsevac, July 30, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
Last week Florida Gators Quarterback Tim [...]
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GLENN BECK: Well, when it comes to the issue of abortion or should I say, I’m sorry, pro choice, they don’t come get any more liberal than Barack Obama . . . Obama is one of the most liberal politicians – especially when it comes to abortion. He’s the only Illinois Senator who voiced opposition [...]
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“If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of [...]
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Father Ernest Daly, LC
Matthew 13:54-58
Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, “Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds? Is he not the carpenter´s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? Are not [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2009
St. Ignatius founder of the Society of Jesus (more commonly known as the Jesuits) in 1534 and created the Spiritual Exercises, which popularized guided retreats in the Church and offered guidelines for discernment that are still used today.
He was born in Loyola, Spain, in 1491, the youngest of [...]
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